seniors housing

Abbeyfield House in Kelowna is located at 1531 Bernard Ave. (Facebook)

Affordable Kelowna seniors housing lost to market rental project

Abbeyfield Canada is looking to the community for replacement housing

 

Paul Zwingé is one of many Langley seniors facing a move – and potentially higher rents – soon because of redevelopment. (Matthew Claxton/Langley Advance Times)

B.C. seniors facing housing crunch, risk homelessness

Langley’s Paul Zwingé is one of many seniors facing an enforced move soon

 

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  • Nov 14, 2023

 

Health-care workers talk with a man in a COVID-19 infected ward at Idola Saint-Jean long-term care home in Laval, Que., Friday, February 25, 2022. In B.C., a September 2023 survey of health care assistants shows half of them are considering quitting in the next two years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes

Half of B.C.’s care aides say they’ll likely quit amid shortages: survey

Close to 1,500 care aide job vacancies listed in B.C. as of the end of June, according to StatsCan

Health-care workers talk with a man in a COVID-19 infected ward at Idola Saint-Jean long-term care home in Laval, Que., Friday, February 25, 2022. In B.C., a September 2023 survey of health care assistants shows half of them are considering quitting in the next two years. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
If your first assumption is that staying in your current home is easier on your wallet than enjoying life at a seniors’ residence, you may be surprised. Photo courtesy Chartwell

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  • Oct 16, 2023
If your first assumption is that staying in your current home is easier on your wallet than enjoying life at a seniors’ residence, you may be surprised. Photo courtesy Chartwell
Dixie Champ (left) with Dede Shave, both residents at Lake View Village in Nelson. A residential tenancy arbitrator has ruled that Golden Life Management’s rent increase on Champ’s apartment was illegal. The decision has implications for other residents, including Shave. Photo: Bill Metcalfe

B.C. senior wins dispute after landlord raises rent over legal limit

Decision involves seniors housing facilities

Dixie Champ (left) with Dede Shave, both residents at Lake View Village in Nelson. A residential tenancy arbitrator has ruled that Golden Life Management’s rent increase on Champ’s apartment was illegal. The decision has implications for other residents, including Shave. Photo: Bill Metcalfe
Chartwell is hosting an open house event Sept. 22 and 23 – drop into any of their retirement residences between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., no RSVP required!

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  • Sep 17, 2023
Chartwell is hosting an open house event Sept. 22 and 23 – drop into any of their retirement residences between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., no RSVP required!
B.C. says it will expedite the registration time for internationally-trained nurses to get practising. (Credit: Pixabay/Antonio-Corigliano)

B.C. cutting costs for retired nurses to return, internationally-educated ones to start

Announcement comes amid about 5,200 nursing vacancies

B.C. says it will expedite the registration time for internationally-trained nurses to get practising. (Credit: Pixabay/Antonio-Corigliano)
A White Rock senior says current government representation doesn’t go far enough when it comes to regulating rent increases at some retirement homes in B.C. Unsplash.com image

B.C. senior says more protection needed for rental rates at retirement homes in the province

Private facilities may raise rent, hospitality costs as inflation rises

A White Rock senior says current government representation doesn’t go far enough when it comes to regulating rent increases at some retirement homes in B.C. Unsplash.com image
Michael Marshall, 25, UBCO physics student living at the Vinyards. (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)

UBCO students rent affordable units at senior’s residence in exchange for fun

Two students in their 20s are living at the Vinyards residence for seniors

Michael Marshall, 25, UBCO physics student living at the Vinyards. (Jacqueline Gelineau/Capital News)
Liberal MP Hedy Fry speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on June 15, 2017. Fry introduced a private bill in late June, Bill C-295, that would amend Section 215 of the Criminal Code to specifically criminalize owners and managers of long-term care homes for failing to provide the “necessaries of life” to vulnerable adults. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Ottawa exploring criminal reform as Liberal MP tables bill on long-term care neglect

Bill C-295 looks to criminalize care home owners who fail to provide residents with necessities

Liberal MP Hedy Fry speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on June 15, 2017. Fry introduced a private bill in late June, Bill C-295, that would amend Section 215 of the Criminal Code to specifically criminalize owners and managers of long-term care homes for failing to provide the “necessaries of life” to vulnerable adults. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
The new building is on Church Avenue next to Ferland Park in Vanderhoof. (Submitted Photo)

New seniors building opening soon in Vanderhoof the 1st of its kind in B.C.

New facility brings affordable housing and holistic dementia care to seniors in April

The new building is on Church Avenue next to Ferland Park in Vanderhoof. (Submitted Photo)
Scales of justice (file photo)

Architect ordered to pay $9M in lawsuit over failed Osoyoos seniors development

Cactus Ridge was intended to be a 92-unit assisted living property built in 2008

Scales of justice (file photo)